I think they did, but I couldn't tell you when it actually happened. I remember a bunch of people who couldn't get into chat for the longest time. I don't know if they ever got that fixed or not.
The only issue we've had with Ajax Chat and Beehive is when someone actually logs out of chat they can't get back into it until they dump their cookies, then log back into the forums. So we just go rid of the logout button in the chat and told people not to log out. The system eventually removes them from the room, but they can still come back in later, unless a mod kicks them, then they're out for 24hrs.
I go through Delphi once in a great while to say Hello to a few and drop promotional links. Otherwise, I don't bother with the place. The final straw for me was when they started the member packages and I paid for one, then they changed it the next week and took away half of what I paid for in the process. I asked for a refund, and got crap about it. They'll never see another cent from me. In my opinion, they can't be trusted in any sense of the word.
I did get asked at one point why Beehive wasn't automated like Delphi, click a few buttons and set up a forum, and I told them Beehive is set up to give the users freedom but the site owner control. This makes it possible for the site owner to protect the site and the people who use it. I'm glad Beehive isn't automated creation of forums by any member. I like being able to tell bad people you can't have a forum on my site, like pedophiles and such. I hope Beehive never becomes automated like Delphi and similar places. Beehive is a much better system all around.
Where am I and who are all these people? :S
"who are all these /fabulous/ people"
FTFU
(hairy) arse!
Check in semi-regularly and have a thread or two to add but too busy with work. :(
I would check in more often, but I'm too busy getting the preparations for Teh Forum Awards 2007 sorted out. Takes time, y'know? Had been planning on getting PWC involved, but after the Oscars, I think they might be a bit shambolic, and we don't want that, do we?
I still pop by occasionally but I'm trying to live my life according to the idea that it's pointless saying anything unless what you have to say is interesting.
Which it usually isn't.
And I find it easier to deal with my moodiness/depression by never talking about it and screwing it into a tiny ball of frustration and then storing it in some deep dark corner of my psyche while avoiding people who might, conceivably, be bothered about me.
But we do miss you being in here (YJ)..
'lo. I pop in every few months but I've just added Teh to my startup tabs in Chrome, so will be here a lot more now. Been busy, got married, had a daughter (that hurt), lots of adulting, work etc. Glad to see so many familiar usernames.
As everyone else is meandering down Memory Lane... I joined the PCF Forum after installing Steve Guntrip's Doorz 3000 explorer.exe-replacement shell from the cover-disc and wanted to find out more. Or maybe wanted to change it back, I forget. It was very yellow.
I think I earned 5 dragon points when that was a thing. They were a lot harder to redeem for goods and services than the tremendous artwork would lead you to believe.
I met Xenophon once, like IRL, he made excellent tea, and we discussed why mint was considered to be a fresh smell. We eventually mooted the concept of bacon-flavoured toothpaste.
Excellent! I really feel this could be a great place again :)
5 dragon points? I think that means you get to peek up Simon's kilt.
A bit of a dust and a vacuum and Teh will be good as new.
Congrats on the offspring, the missus and I were following William's surgeries on Facebook practically in tears. The phrase "you won't know until you're a parent" really is a truism.
Looks like you're driving the old paraffin budgies now too. You should start a thread about that! #MoarThreads
Hallo. I'm still here, too. I just don't have much to say, and I know fuck all about electronics and Raspberry Pis and such, which is what a lot of the chat seems to be about.
Anyway, still doing stuff. Living in sunny/windy/rainy Auckland in New Zealand. Fixing networks by day, and generally doing that by night too (God damn those out-of-hours jobs). Weekends generally involve bemoaning the lack of whitewater within a four hour drive, and having to make do with sea kayakking or climbing a local volcano instead.
I met Xen, too, at least once. Lovely chap, he was. Right up until I refused a cup of tea. That was awkward.
Wait till you're a grandparent! Revenge!
Fixing networks in that kind of environment sounds like something even I could do.
On the other hand, if I were to do that then your competition in NZ would increase by, what, 200%? :-&
Oh dear.. what have you done, Steve? Tell all...
Thanks :)
And I actually had to google paraffin budgies - never heard that term before!
I heard it from a Britannia 767 pilot on a visit to the cockpit as we flew to Florida in 1998 and it's stayed with me. Before all the shenanigans.
Does anybody use the "Like" / thumbs up-down feature? I find myself drawn to it.